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CodeDS/UK/4181
NameSeymour; Susan Margaret Richards Mackinnon (fl 1877-1936); Duchess of Somerset; British wife of Algernon Seymour
Datesfl 1877-1936
GenderFemale
BiographyFrom 1905 onwards she became one of the leading organisers of the Invalid Kitchens charity and she was also active in a number of other charitable causes, including Dr Barnardo’s Homes (of which her husband became president). She died on 30 January 1936.

She was a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and was also awarded the Medal of the Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra Nurses Institution, the Belgian Queen Elisabeth Medal, the French Médaille de la Reconnaissance, the Italian Medaglia Benemeriti Croce Rossa, the Serbian Red Cross Order, and the Spanish Red Cross Merit Order.

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